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    The House on Olive Street
    The House on Olive Street
    The House on Olive Street
    Audiobook11 hours

    The House on Olive Street

    Written by Robyn Carr

    Narrated by Christina Moore

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Robyn Carr is beloved for her charming, romantic fiction. In this touching work, four women-all writers-come together after a painful loss. Recently deceased Gabby Marshall leaves behind a letter asking her friends to complete her unfinished manuscript. Taking vacations from their own lives, the ladies settle at Gabby's home and get to work. "Carr offers a well-written, warm-hearted story and a genuinely fun read." -Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 10, 2010
    ISBN9781449847074
    The House on Olive Street
    Author

    Robyn Carr

    Robyn Carr is an award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty novels, including highly praised women's fiction such as Four Friends and The View From Alameda Island and the critically acclaimed Virgin River, Thunder Point and Sullivan's Crossing series. Virgin River is now a Netflix Original series. Robyn lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visit her website at www.RobynCarr.com.

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    • 4/5
      This was my first Robyn Carr book, but it won't be my last. This is grown up chick lit-- fiction that looks at four women, each at a crossroads in her life,drawn together by the unexpected death of the fifth member of their group.Elly is a college professor. She's now involved in a relationship that she's not willing to share with the world (including her friends) because it doesn't fit with her image of herself.Beth writes murder mysteries, but she is very shy in her everyday life. Part of this shyness is a need to hide the problems in her marriage-- problems that sometimes leave physical signs.Barbara Ann works hard as a writer of romance novels, but can't quite make it to the next level of success. She is also mom to young men, and it often seems like she's mom to her husband as well. The effort of caring for these adults (or close to it) that don't in any way appreciate it finally gets too much for her.Sable is a highly successful author, but she's built a shell around herself, one based on a whole new identity she created in an effort to escape her past, a past that is catching up to her.I loved meeting all four of these women. They all became very real to me, even if their lives and problems ranged from ones that I see everyday to ones I can only stretch my mind to imagine.Each woman was a mixture of strength and weaknesses. Their relationships were similar-- the group had been held together by Gabby, and when she was gone, they didn't always know how to deal with one another.Each woman makes a personal journey over the course of the book. Each of them touched me, and left me wishing I'd see them again.
    • 3/5
      4 writer friends mourning the loss of gabby. they live in the house sorting out gabby's writing. beth/abused by husband, barbara ann 4 boys and husband who r slobs. ella spinster teacher dating gus on the sly and famous rich writer who is hiding past life. ok read/enjoyable
    • 1/5
      I love Robyn Cart’s books and this is another great one but it it is incomplete. It will be on one chapter and then skips to another part and then to another. Bad editing
    • 3/5
      Gabby dies on the cusp of her 50th birthday, leaving her family and friends to grieve and work out their futures without her enormous help and guidance. The glue that has bound her little group of writer friends together, Gabby has one last request of them--that these 4 diverse women cull through all Gabby’s writing, and decide what to do with the various articles, letters, manuscript pages. Her friends all have demons to overcome--Elly the spinster, Sable the reclusive star with a hidden past, Beth her abusive husband, and Barbara Ann her doubts in her career and lack of control at home. Within a few weeks, all 4 women flee their everyday routines and move into the house on Olive Street, where they find a common bond and goal and discover secrets about themselves and each other.Started slow, a little melodramatic, but overall an enjoyable read. All 4 characters develop from A to Z--well done character arcs.